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n. - A fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery.

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  • Aggressive lipid-lowering therapy and regression of coronary atheroma.
  • Although the primary endpoint (change in percent atheroma volume) was not different between rimonabant and placebo, other measures of atherosclerosis appeared to change...
  • Second, reading the study carefully one finds that what the authors call the PAV (percent atheroma volume) actually increases with statin therapy (This is a measurement...
  • That seems a rather unscientific conclusion, given that they observed zero effect on the most important measurable quantity clinical events, and a small effect on...
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